NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[twindaddyj]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigeastbumrush

PS3: Graphics- Horrible. Field is dark. Crowds don't move. The graphics on cutscenes are nice. Gameplay- Horrible. The game moves way too slow. The passing is great. Love the trajectory. Running is good. Holes open up. But the game moves way too slow as if it's in slow motion. And I'm not talking about motion blur. The game crawls. Presentation- Good. Replays are great and frequent. Don't like the cut to other scores so frequently. Crowd is the same as prior versions which was a drop off from older titles. But overall I feel the presentation is good. Commentary- Horrible. Same as the past. Not sure what they were trying to do with the game. The Heisman mode is confusing. Why slow the game down for "legends"? EA should really have considered not releasing this game for another year or at least until the next consoles come out.

LOl yeah EA is going to stop making them and loose out on profits for multiple years RIGHT LOL LOL

[brahmagoul]

I remember in last year's demo I was struck by the different feel of running the ball. I get that feeling from throwing the ball. Defensively, I tried making the switch from controlling a D-lineman, something I've done since swim moves were added to Madden in the late 90s, to linebacker, and the defense feels slightly tighter.

Slight is the key word. The gameplay feels slightly better, and I think that might be enough for me since you can't control or play every team's games in Madden because of Connected Careers.

It did feel a bit slow, as someone just wrote, but I attributed that more to the difficulty level. Especially with NCAA, I rather it be slower than faster because the game would look more jagged.

I'm on PS3, and I thought the lighting made up for the graphical hinderances others were talking about. I thought it looked great in the sun at USC. The grass still looked pasted from some angles. Also, the collisions look much better. I know the "infinity engine" isn't in this, but it looked and felt like everything I've been hearing about in Madden's infinity engine. That might have something to do with the reaction change on defense. I have a feeling that's having a bigger impact than this so-called new engine in Madden that I'm not seeing in videos.

Anyway, I'll stop there before I get off topic.

[bigeastbumrush]

Quote: Originally Posted by twindaddyj

LOl yeah EA is going to stop making them and loose out on profits for multiple years RIGHT LOL LOL

The did it with NBA Live.

And since you're so concerned with profit, take a look at Electronic Arts' stock price over the last 52 weeks.

[rerdivine]

Yeah i tried playing NCAA 2012 but i cant no more 13 is like 200x times better.

[twindaddyj]

Perhaps because it doens't sell nearly as well being it's basktball. IMO live hasn't been good since before 2000. That's a lot of years of crap.

[TDenverFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigeastbumrush

The did it with NBA Live. And since you're so concerned with profit, take a look at Electronic Arts' stock price over the last 52 weeks.

NCAA sells about 1 Million copies a year. I don't think Live did that.

[twindaddyj]

sales of basketball don't even come close to the football games id say.

[twindaddyj]

Probably even more since they sold 700k+ copies in less than 2 weeks of release.